The effigy of Nana Yaa Asantewaa at the Manhyia Palace Museum, Kumasi, Ghana 🇬🇭. The Woman who fought men in front of cannons.

Nana Yaa Asantewaa, a revered Ghanaian warrior born in 1840, courageously led an army against the British invaders. She was not only a successful farmer and mother but also an intellectual, politician, activist, and a prominent leader. Yaa Asantewaa gained widespread acclaim for her pivotal role in the Ashanti rebellion, defending the Golden Stool. Today, her effigy stands proudly at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana.

As the Queen Mother, Asantewaa bore significant responsibilities, including guarding the revered Golden Stool, symbolizing the Ashanti kingdom's culture and power. In 1896, the Ashanti people rebelled against British presence and their attempt to establish the "Gold Coast" colony. In response, the British captured and exiled Asantehene Prempeh I, the Ashanti King, and Asantewaa's powerful grandson, Kofi Tene.

The British aimed to seize the Golden Stool, leading to these actions. While remaining leaders within the community debated on how to best respond the British threat, Asantewaa held her ground and rallied the troops. Her leadership and passion led to her role as Commander in Chief of the Ashanti army. In turn, the Anglo-Ashanti wars’ fifth and final wàr against the British became known as the Yaa Asantewaa Wàr of Independence (or the war of the Golden Stool), which began on March 28, 1900.

That conflict began when British representative Sr. Frederick Mitchell Hodgson insisted on sitting on the Golden Stool. Since the Stool was not a throne, when Hodgson’s decision became known. Yaa Asantewaa led the rebellion which resulted in the death of 1,000 Britiśh and allied Africàn soldiers and 2,000 Ashanti. Both totals were higher that the deaths from all previous wars between the Ashanti and the Brìtish combined.

She was captured and sent on exile to the Seychelles Yaa Asantewa died in exile on the 17th of October 1921. Yaa Asantewa's War was the last major war led by an African Woman.

To date, she is honored in Africa as one of the greatest African Women. Her body was later returned to Ghana were she was given a befitting burial.

"How can one African country face the whole Europe that's united? Africa needs to Unite as One!". ~ Muammar Gaddafi

You may have been meant to be a woman but...guess what? You're a man bro...a fuckin man...🤣

46 years ago, Stephen Bantu Biko, an anti-apartheid activist, and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement died in a prison cell in Pretoria.

20 years later, an Apartheid Security Police, Gideon Nieuwoudt, admitted to murdering him.

Rest in Power.

This Thanksgiving remember that the actual story of how Thanksgiving became a holiday is because of one singular old lady writing to the White House for 11 years that there needed to be a day to celebrate coming together as a family in a time of constant war and separation, particularly the middle of the Civil War, until Abraham Lincoln finally got tired of her and gave her the day.

The myth that we usually believe is the “First Thanksgiving,” that being the “congregation” between indigenous people and the Pilgrims of the Mayflower, was only because the leader of the said indigenous group knew the mutual language due to earlier slavery. The Puritans refused to eat with “savage Indians.” They stole their cropping techniques, and then slaughtered them all via internal warfare and intentional smallpox infestation.

The son of the chief had his head put on a pike that stayed in the town square for 50 years afterwards.

So the moral of the story that you should remember for this Thanksgiving.

1. The legacy of colonization of baked into every single aspect of American culture.

2. Try to respect the 566 indigenous nations in the United States that are left because they are deprived of rights, American citizenship, and any living history.

3. Consistently writing to your local office and federal government might actually make a change.

4. The only way to unite a country going through conflict, especially America, is to make your voice heard, and make sure those in power no the necessity of overcoming prejudice.

5. Turkey was not native to the section of America where the Pilgrims landed.
Happy Thanksgiving, my people

Mother to Son, by Langston Hughes:

Well, Son, I’ll tell you. Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor, bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, and reachin’ landin’s, and turnin’ corners, and sometimes goin’ in the dark where there ain’t been no light. So boy, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the steps. ‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard. Don’t you fall now, for I’se still goin’ honey, I’se still climbin’. And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.